Thursday, November 6, 2014

"To Be or Not To Be," Notes

"To be or not to be"
-"To be or not to be: that is the question,"= to be himself or to be the insane figure
-To care or not to care
-To die= to be in denial
-To sleep= denying from all things and stop thinking
-No more= dead 
-Death of Hamlet himself or Claudius will bring consequences 
-Hamlet's life define our own life
-Hamlet's conflicts= our own conflicts
-Contumely= rude speech
-Hamlet's conflicts clarify the feelings of life and unfairness of life
-Insolence= rude
-Unworthy for Hamlet is Claudius
-Hamlet fears afterlife. The unclarity of afterlife is the obstacle of death.
-Undiscovered country- afterlife
-In the play, killing a man who killed his father is understandable
-Hamlet is a deep thinker
-Hamlet knows how to control himself
-Orisons= prayers
-The time period of Shakespeare dealt with a lot of religion
-Claudius= powerful
-Polonius= powerless
-In the last lines, he returns to reality including Ophelia

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